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Work · September 16, 2019

PrivacySpy, an open project to assess, rate, & archive privacy policies

PrivacySpy is an open project to grade and monitor privacy policies for convenience and accountability. Let's make informed data privacy decisions.

PrivacySpy, an open project to assess, rate, & archive privacy policies launched on September 16, 2019 with 10 votes, #924 of 3,296 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 7 years on.

In plain words

PrivacySpy is an open project that evaluates, rates, and archives privacy policies for various services. Launched in 2019, it helps users understand how companies handle their personal data by providing systematic assessments of privacy terms. The tool is designed for anyone concerned about data privacy who wants transparent, comparable information about different services' privacy practices. Its open nature allows community contributions to the ongoing evaluation process.

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From the sources

Most people don't have the patience to read privacy policies. But privacy is important, and we shouldn't just trust that products are treating our data right. PrivacySpy uses a consistent rubric to grade privacy policies on a ten-point scale. PrivacySpy is completely open source, and maintained by a team of volunteers. If you want to correct an error, add a product to the database, or suggest any kind of improvement, you can! As part of our mission to make privacy more accessible, we offer a free browser extension and API that anyone can use to interact with our data. PrivacySpy is a project of Politiwatch, a registered 501(c)(3) organization. We're grateful to everyone who has helped make…from privacyspy.org

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